Hinton

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Hinton may refer to:

Contents 1 Places 2 People

[edit] Places

In Australia:

• Hinton, New South Wales

In Canada:

• Hinton, Alberta
  • Hinton/Entrance Airport
  • Hinton/Jasper-Hinton Airport

In England:

• Hinton, Gloucestershire
• Hinton, Hampshire
• Hinton, Northamptonshire
• Hinton Daubney, Hampshire
• Hinton, Shropshire
• Hinton, Somerset
• Hinton Admiral, Hampshire
  • Hinton Admiral railway station
• Hinton Ampner, Hampshire
• Hinton Blewitt, Somerset
• Hinton Charterhouse, Somerset
• Hinton Martell, Dorset
• Hinton Parva, Dorset
• Hinton St George, Somerset
• Hinton St Mary, Dorset
• Hinton-in-the-Hedges, Northamptonshire
• Hinton-on-the-Green, Worcestershire
• Cherry Hinton, Cambridgeshire
• Tarrant Hinton, Wiltshire

In the United States:

• Hinton, Iowa
• Hinton, Oklahoma
• Hinton, West Virginia
  • Hinton (Amtrak station)
• Hinton Township, Michigan

[edit] People

As a given name:

• Hinton Battle, American actor, dancer, and dance teacher
• Hinton James, one-term US congressman
• Hinton Rowan Helper, US writer

As a surname:

• Carma Hinton, Chinese documentary film-maker, daughter of William Hinton (see below), and great-granddaughter of:
• Charles H. Hinton, son-in-law of George Boole, author of the book An Episode of Flatland, coined the word tesseract
• Christopher Hinton, First Baron Hinton of Bankside, (1901-1983), a British nuclear power engineer
• Craig Hinton, a British writer, whose work includes several Doctor Who novels
• Ed Hinton, (born 1948), a motor racing sportswriter
• Eddie Hinton (1944-1995), a US songwriter and session musician
• Geoffrey Hinton, a British computer scientist
• Howard Hinton (1912-1977), a British entomologist and Fellow of the Royal Society
• James Hinton (1822-1875), an English surgeon and author
• J. M. Hinton, also known as "Michael Hinton", Oxford philosopher, first modern proponent of disjunctive view of perception
• Joan Hinton, a US nuclear physicist who has lived in China for many years
• Joe Hinton, soul singer
• Martin Hinton (1883-1961), English zoologist
• Milt Hinton (1910-2000), jazz double bassist
• Susan Eloise Hinton (born 1950), an American author of young adult novels
• William H. Hinton (1919-2004), an American Marxist who chronicled the Chinese Revolution, most notably in his work Fanshen